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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do blind people who suddenly gain sight usually see objects at first?
(a) as black and white
(b) as all gray
(c) as bigger than they really are
(d) as patches of colored light

2. What changes about the view around Dillard's home when winter comes?
(a) nothing changes about the view
(b) the view looks stark and empty
(c) the snow covered trees block her view of the creek
(d) winter opens vistas around Dillard's home so she can see other homes

3. Dillard says that a particular object remains unseen until what happens?
(a) the name of the object is known
(b) a light is turned on
(c) one's attention is focused on it
(d) it moves

4. What is Dillard illustrating in her story about the Polyphemus moth from her childhood?
(a) moths have to spread their weeks when born
(b) kids are cruel
(c) she has a good memory
(d) the indifference humans often exhibit towards the natural world

5. How do honey bees survive the cold of winter?
(a) go to sleep inside their honey combs
(b) cluster together in giant balls
(c) they don't survive, honey bees die off in the winter
(d) build nest in the ground and sleep during winter

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Dillard say hinders people from experiencing the now?

2. When Dillard raps on the goldfish bowl, what does the fish do?

3. If you remove the answer in question #86 from chlorophyll, you create a molecule of what?

4. What is figurative seeing?

5. What does the animal in question #1 do to to get Dillard's attention?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why do you think the story about the coot might be significant?

2. What is are augenblicks and how what does Dillard do with them?

3. Why does Dillard question both the morality and the compassion of nature?

4. What is the correlation Dillard sees between time and the search for God?

5. What is her purpose in the mimicking?

6. What does Dillard conclude when she attempts to "view" creation from the standpoint of God?

7. Chapter 13 continues Dillard's musing on the "dog eat dog" world especially as it relates to parasites. How does Dillard view the parasitic relationship?

8. In Chapter 12, Dillard observes the world at night. Considering the grasshoppers leads her into thoughts of locusts. How did early people see locusts, and where does Dillard's thoughts on them lead?

9. Dillard watches a mosquito feed on a copperhead snake. What does she think of the act?

10. Dillard writes a mystical account of a real encounter with a goldfinch. Briefly describe what she wrote.

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